Culturally and Socially Grounded Modalities

Core Idea: Healing must be contextualized within race, culture, history, and systems of power.

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• Liberation Psychology:

  • Focuses on the mental health impact of colonization, poverty, and oppression.

  • Centered in justice, collective healing, and activism.

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• Culturally Adapted CBT / Psychodynamic Therapy:

  • Integrates spiritual, relational, or communal frameworks of healing.

  • Tailors traditional models to fit cultural meaning-making.

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• Indigenous, Afrocentric, or Ancestral Healing Models:

  • May include storytelling, ritual, or land-based practices.

  • Recognize trauma as collective and intergenerational.